VFP need to compile the code into the StoredProcedureObject field before it can use it. Unfortunatly for you, the compilation feature is available only inside VFP, not as a stand alone application.

>I wrote an applications that updates a customers VFP stored procedures using the append procedures command and a text file with the new stored procedures. Testing in VFP worked fine but when I built the executible and ran it I got the "Feature not available" error message. Shouldn't this be possible?
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>I also tried overwriting the memo field called code in the .dbc that has the stored procedures(StoredProcedureSource) but the changes do not update the (StoredProcedureObject) info. which is in some binary or encrypted format.